God gave cats a lot of the 'tude quotient of the animal kingdom. Deal with it.

So much damage has been done by incomplete and false repentance, and by confessions that aren't really confessions, that you will want to bookmark this fine essay by Doug Wilson. Anymore, I find I have to listen to confessions like a lawyer reads a document.

It's sad. When I was a young Christian, Christianity Today was a terrific magazine, with substantive articles and book reviews and all. And even then, in the 70s, it wasn't fully what it had been. Then came embrace of female preachers, shoddy handling of the days of creation... and it's been downhill since.

Thankfully, the indispensable Denny Burk tersely notes that "Sanger’s legacy has a body-count," and pretty thoroughly fisks the CT article. Denny's piece features many quotables... and the meta isn't even too bad! (Yet.)

Doug Wilsonwrites about the same issue, noting that the pro-aborts "disproportionately target black boys and girls — with the connivance of black quislings", and that "they have a kill rate much higher than that of the Ferguson Police Department." He adds that, "as bad as Sanger was, she wasn’t as ghoulish as her heirs are."

For good reason, at one point, Stan Gale did not want a funeral to be held when he died. But now, for good reasons, he's changed his mind.

No, the order of the last two items is not meant to send a message.

Me, I'd like one. Not for dueling hagiographies, but to give "me" one last chance to preach Christ, in the person of whoever does the funeral preaching Christ. Funerals are, or should be, a great opportunity (Eccl. 7:1-4).

Al Mohler had a good commentary on the CT article on The Briefing today.

Regarding cats with 'tude: my cat plays fetch and likes to serve as a head rest when I'm at my home desk. She also likes to text my son's girlfriend on his laptop when he hangs out in my office and leaves it unattended. Best cat ever. I think I'll treat her a bacon donut hotdog.

Well said, Mr. Turk! I had started to scroll through the comments on that CT article earlier but had to stop when my head banging on the table woke the baby. I'm glad I went back; I'll be stealing from what you wrote gratuitously when I argue this with my weird unitarian friend later.

I'm sure Gurnall would. "Things That Can't Be Helped" is a category by itself. Sleepy because it wasn't important enough to get to bed at a decent hour is not sleepy because I worked graveyard and yet didn't want to miss church. Late this week because there was a pile-up on I-10 is different from late every week because it just isn't important enough to me to be a responsible priest by being there to worship with my church family when my family worships.

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